This collection sets about untangling some of the knotty issues in the underexplored relationship between human rights and the media. We investigate how complex

The Routledge Companion to Media and Human Rights offers a comprehensive and contemporary survey of the key themes, approaches and debates in the field of media

The media play a crucial role in the protection of human rights. They expose human rights violations and offer an arena for different voices to be heard in publ

What impact do mass media portrayals of atrocities have on activism? Why do these news stories sometimes mobilize people, while at other times they are met with

Drawing on social-legal, cultural and media theory, this book is one of the first to examine the media politics of human rights. It examines how the media const